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Furiosa and Mad Max’s parallel backstories make Fury Road even better
The Mad Max series has always thrived on reinvention. No two consecutive movies in the franchise have ever been the same, and most of them aren’t even remotely similar to each other, save for the themes of the Wasteland and the idea of a lone wanderer doing their best to survive. Furiosa, the newest movie in the series, may be the biggest exception to that rule: While the movie is explicitly a prequel to Fury Road, it draws its biggest inspirations from the original 1979 Mad Max, giving Max and Furiosa similarly tragic origin stories.